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Questions about the history of mathematics and important mathematicians.
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1
In which decade was category theory invented/discovered?
1960's
1950's
1930's
1940's
2
Which of the following problems did Terence Tao NOT contribute to?
Erdős-Straus conjecture
Navier-Stokes equation
Homotopy hypothesis
Hardy-Littlewood prime tuples conjecture
3
Which of the following mathematicians is known to have been a vegetarian?
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Atle Selberg
Omar Khayyám
William Rowan Hamilton
4
Who won the Abel Prize in 2005?
Pierre Deligne
Peter D. Lax
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer
Lennart Carleson
5
Which of the following mathematicians did foundational work in one-variable complex analysis?
Blaise Pascal
Berit Stensønes
David Hilbert
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
6
Which university has had Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann and David Hilbert as lecturers?
University of Trieste
University of Bonn
University of Göttingen
University of Münster
7
Where does the usage of the word "functional" in functional analysis originate?
Complex analysis
Ramsey theory
Calculus of variations
Symplectic geometry
8
Who invented calculus independently of Isaac Newton?
Pierre de Fermat
Gottfried Leibniz
John Napier
Leonhard Euler
9
Which mathematician generalized Weierstrass' approximation theorem in 1937?
Marshall H. Stone
Otto Hölder
Jean Gaston Darboux
Maurice Fréchet
10
Who classified finitely generated projective modules over noncommutative tori?
Hans Georg Feichtinger
Franz Luef
Marc Rieffel
Israel Gelfand
11
What is the mathematician and cartographer Caspar Wessel most known for having introduced?
The normal distribution
Symmetry groups
p-adic integers
The complex plane
12
Which of the following areas of mathematics did Euclid contribute to?
Probability theory
Differential equations
Complex analysis
Number theory
13
Which year did Shing-Tung Yau, Alain Connes and William Thurston win the Fields medal?
1978
1990
1982
1986
14
Who gave the definitive modern statement of the epsilon-delta definition of a limit?
Bernard Bolzano
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Karl Weierstrass
Jean Gaston Darboux
15
Which of the following concepts did William Lawvere define?
Elementary topos
Monoidal category
Affine scheme
Ultrafilter
16
In 1994, Andrew Wiles proved a conjecture that was made in the 17th century. Which one?
The Poincaré conjecture
The Riemann hypothesis
Fermat's last theorem
The continuum hypothesis
17
Who was a student of Carl Friedrich Gauss?
Carl David Tolmé Runge
J. W. Richard Dedekind
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Simeon Poisson
18
Homological algebra has its roots in an older branch of mathematics. Which one?
Algebraic geometry
Algebraic topology
Representation theory of finite groups
Category theory
19
Which area of mathematics did Alexander Grothendieck initally become an expert in?
Functional analysis
Algebraic geometry
Combinatorics
Several complex variables
20
Who gave the modern axiomatization of a commutative ring?
David Hilbert
Emmy Noether
Richard Dedekind
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
21
Which mathematician gave the first complete and axiomatic treatment of Hilbert spaces?
Frigyes Riesz
Marc-Antoine Parseval
Norbert Wiener
John von Neumann
22
At what age did Évariste Galois die?
20
26
22
31
23
Which of the following mathematicians was a close friend of Sophus Lie?
Évariste Galois
Niels Henrik Abel
Felix Klein
Henri Poincaré
24
Who is arguably the father of modern set theory?
David Hilbert
Ernst Zermelo
Bertrand Russell
Georg Cantor
25
What is John Napier famous for having invented/discovered?
Partitions of unity
Projective geometry
Logarithms
The decimal system
26
Who introduced the terms injective and surjective?
Nicolas Bourbaki
Alexander Grothendieck
Oswald Teichmüller
Emil Artin
27
Which greek mathematician solved the problem of the quadrature of the lune?
Hippocrates
Euclid
Pythagoras
Archimedes
28
Which year was the Lebesgue integral introduced?
1904
1922
1835
1883
29
Which mathematician introduced the concepts now known as homotopy and homology?
Henri Poincaré
Stanislaw Ulam
Luitzen Brouwer
Samuel Eilenberg
30
What originally motivated Joseph Fourier to introduce his now-famous Fourier series?
The heat equation
Equalization of audio signals
Image processing
The Basel problem
